Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1945
42nd YEAR
Commencement Set for June 24 In Connection With Baccalaureate; Announce Senior Class Committees
Baccalaureate services and commencement will both be held Sunday, June 24, as voted by members of the senior class yesterday, Don Alderson, class president, has announced. This will allow V-12's one extra day for traveling time to their homes before starting the summer session.
The student-faculty commencement committee will make final plans as to the time of the events and order of activities in a meeting today at 4 p.m.
The senior class committees, appointed by a joint committee of the senior class officers and faculty members, were announced by Janet Sloan,
announced by some secretary-treasurer of the class.
The class breakfast committee members are Virginia Rader, chairman, Hope Crittendon Miller, Mignon Morton, David Wlyte, and William West.
The invitation committee consists of Hazel Jones, chairman, Martha Woodward, William Chestrut, Jane Ukena, Norma Henry, and Daniel Chase.
The class gift committee includes Robert Buschel, chairman, Norma Anderson, Maurine Waterstradt, Charles Cowan, Helen Pierson, and Shirley Kelly.
The publicity committee includes Joel Fant, chairman, Joan Justice, and Dorthe McGill. The cap and gown committee is composed of Robert Witt, chairman, Cecil Hudson, Donna Jean Nichols, and Mary Olive Marshall.
The class history committee includes Beverly Bohan, chairman, Carol Stuart, Donald Cousins, and Elizabeth Baker. The class prophecy committee consists of Ruth Tippin, chairman, Mary Louise Rowsey, Harriet Davis, and Robert Stewart.
The reception and dance committee includes Ruth Prentice, chairman, Maxine Jones, Kathleen Hazen, and Robert R. Bayles. The alumni membership committee is Lonnie Kelley, chairman, Frances Morrill, H. E. (Ed) Schneitter, and Jean Bauer.
Lawrence Schools Will Present Vespers To Open Music Week
Approximately 500 Lawrence public school students will observe Music week with a vespers in Hoch auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Mabel Barnhart, associate professor of Education, announced today.
The Liberty Memorial High school band, directed by Oliver Hobbs, will open the program by playing a selected group of marches and the "Finale" from the "New World Symphony," by Dvorak.
The second of four groups to perform will be the junior high school chorus, directed by Jeanne Scott, former graduate of the University and music teacher of the school. They will sing "Ghost Pipes" (Skilton), and "This Is My Country" (Jacobs).
Three children directors will lead the Pinckney Primary Rythm school band of 130 students in "In Lilac Time" (Engleman), "The Clock" (Kullak), and "Spanish Dance No. 1" (Moszkowski).
The elementary grade school chorus of 250 voices, directed by Miss Barnhart will sing "Music Everywhere" (Foster), "Prayer of the Slavic Children" (Golde), "When Johnny Comes Marching"
Jay Janes Plan to Sponsor Fifth Annual Dandelion Day This Month
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D-Day is at hand! Invasion is inevitable! K. U. is faced once more with the prospect of the annual invasion of hordes of taraxacum officile, better known as "those darn dandelions."
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Betty Jo O'Neal, college junior, has been appointed chairman of a committee to investigate having a fifth annual Dandelion Day, which the Jay James plan to sponsor, Mary Olive Marshall, president, announced today.
Although plans are tentative,
Dandelion Day, which was first suggested by Charles Wright, Topeka, and Bill Farmer, Paola, has been a yearly event at K. U. since its institution in 1941. Until 1944, Dandelion Day was an all-day affair, but last year University authorities vetoed this plan because of the intensified war program. The occasion was an afternoon event last year, with digging beginning at 3-30, climaxed by a picnic and a street dance in the evening.
Washington, (INS) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur today was assured the honor of leading American troops in their ultimate triumphal entry into Tokyo.
An announcement of the joint chiefs of staff through the office of war information named MacArthur to command all land operations in the Pacific area.
pending conference with the chancellor, it is almost certain that the annual event will be sometime this month as usual. Miss Marshall said
MacArthur Given Command in Pacific
Monday's Schedule
Together with fleet admiral Chester Nimitz, who by the same order will command all naval operations in the Pacific area, MacArthur will now have an opportunity to extend his strategic talent to the Japanese homeland.
Classes on Monday will be n
on the following schedule:
8:30 classes ... 8:30- 9:05
9:30 classes ... 9:15- 9:50
CONVOCATION ... 10:00-10:50
10:30 classes ... 11:00-11:35
11:30 classes ... 11:45-12:20
Classes on Monday will be held on the following schedule:
New York—(INS)—Raymond Davies, a mutual broadcasting system correspondent, reported today from Moscow that a Russian fleet was on maneuvers in the Pacific.
Moscow Radio Says Russian Submarines And Fleet in Pacific
The correspondent quoted a dispatch in the Moscow newspaper Pravda which stated, among other things, that submarine crews had gone through torpedo maneuvers and that "the maneuvers gave excellent results."
The correspondent added that the Russian man-on-the-street reaction to Soviet denunciation of the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact was that "for a long time now, the Russians have felt that the treaty was completely out of tune with reality."
Olin Downes Returns To Speak At Convocation On'Artists'
The concert pianist will play in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 p.m. Monday as a part of Music week festivities.
Mr. Downes has lectured in former years at Boston university, and has assisted in conducting music courses at Harvard. In 1939 he was director of the World's Fair, New York City.
In recognition of his early praise of Sibelius, famed Finnish composer, Mr. Downes was made Commander of the Order of White Roses of Finland. From the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music he received the honorary degree of doctor of music.
U.S. Over Weser Near Hannover
His academic training ended with the elementary grades, but he received a broad musical education under private instructors. Most influential of these was Dr. Louis Kelterman, famed musicologist. Mr. Downes has lately advanced the idea of musicology schools for training critics. He himself had no real training in the literary field.
Mr. Downes, who will speak here for the second time, will discuss "The Place of the Artist in the Modern World." He will arrive here by plane to participate in the opening event of Music week.
With the Times since 1924, Mr. Downes received earlier experience in his field of writing music articles for the Boston Post for 18 years. He has also published several music magazines and two music books, one in collaboration with Elsie Singmeister.
Troops Must Move From Europe to Pacific
Olin Downes, New York Times music critic, who believes that it is the critics duty "to write in such a way that the general public can understand him" will speak at convocation at 10 a.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium.
Washington, (INS)-Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, declared today that the transfer of high priority American troops from Europe to the Pacific must start "literally on an hour's notice" on V-E day.
(International News Service)
At the northern end of the western front, Canadian troops pushed to the west and north in drives which threatened to isolate all enemy forces in Holland, and cut supply and communication lines leading to German V-bomb installations.
A new U. S. First army showdown drive toward Berlin was under way today, adding impetus to the nine-army assault across Germany which included new crossings of the Weser river and a thrust at Hannover. The British radio said that Allied troops are less than 2 miles from Hannover.
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A spokesman for supreme Allied headquarters said the U. S. Ninth army's 2nd armored division and 30th infantry division crossed the Weser at two more places near Hamelin and then pushed eastward.
Czech Government Quits (BULLETIN)
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London, (INS) — The Moscow radio tonight reported resignations of the Czechoslovak government in exile with headquarters in London.
President Eduard Bene received the members of the Czech government yesterday and accepted their resignations, the broadcast said.
Formation of a new cabinet is expected, Moscow added.
Armored units of the U. S. First army pushed forward 20 miles toward the Weser river in the area east of Paderborn, while infantry troops reached the river 10 miles above Kassel.
Third Army Still Advancing
U. S. Third army infantry advanced 13 miles along a 30-mile front, pushing at one point to within 58 miles of the Czech border.
Fighting on the U. S. Seventh army front was centered in the city of Heilbronn and Wuerzburg.
The French First army advanced to the Necker river south of Heilborn.
As Allied armies battered their way across German territory, General Omar N. Bradley, commander of the 12th army' group, declared in a broadcast from Coblenz that "this time we must leave the German people with no illusions about who won the war, no less than who lost the war."
On the eastern front, Soviet troops were reported to be battling in the cutskirts of Vienna proper. Dispatches reaching Moscow said that Russian tommy-gunners, street fighting veterans of the battles for Stalingrad and Budapest, had been assigned the task of cleaning Nazi snipers and machine gunners out of the cellars and attics of Vienna.
Bombings on Rail Centers Continue The endless Allied air war went into another blazing day with heavy American bombers, escorted by fighters, blasting the big German rail terminal at Halle, Saxony, and Leipzig.
"He taught me to drive. Now perhaps I can teach him to fly!" This was the enthusiastic comment today of diminutive Mrs. Irene Tice, senior in the College, after winning the distinction of being the first member of the Jayhawk飞翔 Club to fly solo. She was referring to her husband, an Army doctor whom she has not seen for over three years. He is now working in an evacuation hospital in Manila.
"Good Instructor" Is Reason
Mrs.Irene Tice First Member Of K.U.Flying Club to Solo
When asked how she happened to be the first student to fly alone she replied, "I had such a good instructor." However, this answer does not seem sufficient since her instructor, Don Ong, son of the owner of the Ong Aircraft corporation who provide the flight instructors for the K.U. course, also is instructing some eight or nine other members of the club. As for Ong, he says Mrs. Tice did a very commendable job, in fact, maneuvered several three-point landings.
campus is so much different, so small, and compact. In fact," Mrs. Tice advises, "I haven't been able to come down to earth in any of my courses since I started flying. Maybe with the new perspective I'll be a better student in other things." Mrs. Tice is majoring in bacteriology.
Flying Gives New Perspective
"I've been walking on air ever since," Mrs. Tice exclaimed. She said she has never soloed over the campus but she wants to do so. "It gives you a new perspective. The
As to her sensations while in flight, "Well, that other seat looked kind of empty," she admitted. "But I'm not the type that scares easily." Mrs. Tice is slightly over five feet tall.
Adams Says Bituminous Miners to Work Monday
Washington—(INS)—K. C. Adams, spokesman for the United Mine Workers union, today predicted that full production in the nation's bittuminous coal fields will be resumed by Monday morning.
The union statement came after the war labor board threatened government seizure of 200 struck mines in seven states because of the disruption to war-vital steel production.
WEATHER
Fair through Saturday. Warmer this afternoon and tonight.